Is libURL required for a "get url..." statement?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Feb 13 05:05:24 EST 2007


Dave Cragg wrote:
> On 13 Feb 2007, at 02:28, Derek Bump wrote:
> 
>> I know that you cannot use commands associated with any Rev Library  
>> until after the startup handler has finished, but is the following  
>> command part of the libURL library?
>>
>>   get url "http://www.mysite.com/"
>>
>> The reason I ask is because it seems to me that it would not be,  
>> but is instead built into the engine.
> 
> A reasonable assumption, but I'm afraid "get url" does need libUrl  
> when used with ftp and http URLs. The same is true for other calls  
> using http and ftp urls (load,  post, etc.) and also the cachedUrls()  
> function.

Derek, would you be able to make that call from a preOpenCard handler in 
the first card of your mainStack?

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